Technology can extend the human condition but it can also work to dehumanize, transforming the sincere ideals of community and relationships into exploitable resources. The vendor marketing machines have lots of money and content marketing is their new effort to turn spin doctors into gurus as they work to convince you they are not selling but educating. Let the […]
Losing the Soul of Social Read More »
I’ve been thinking about Media Naturalness theory for some time. Well, more often it just pops up because it’s not like I’ve invested all than much effort into it. In short, if you’re not familiar, Media Naturalness Theory is the idea that human beings were built for face-to-face communication over thousands of years of evolution.
Conversation Brings Change, Naturally Read More »
I’ve been thinking more about how Social has become SO big, so fast. Maybe it’s having been in Texas recently (where everything is bigger!) for mLearnCon last week or it’s because I’ve been reading a lot of Stowe Boyd‘s reviews and research tied into his ideas on “sets vs. scenes.” Social is not necessarily getting bigger in the sense of
Big Social Isn’t Always Best Read More »
In a not so recent article (Dec 2014) criticizing the open office idea as getting it wrong and ruining the workplace, the author ranted about how negatively disruptive this disruptive approach has been in her own circumstance. To that I say exactly- it’s not for everyone. Organizations are as unique as fingerprints and if companies don’t
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Implement, Do, Start, Launch, are all terms that indicate a program or project is underway. It’s the language of the business initiative. But when these words precede the action of “Social”, it’s a bit perplexing. We don’t “do” social, we are social. Being social is just connecting, communicating, and sharing usually with the key
We Don’t Do Social Here Read More »
